Tunnel creation and selection

• Tunnels must exist between PE endpoints before transport connection may be established

• Same tunnel may be used for IP and L2 transport traffic

  • Eases provisioning
  • Scalable

• Service determined by tunnel creation

  • RSVP-TE tunnels allow traffic engineering and resource reservation
  • LDP tunnels are plug & play

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